Archive for December, 2005

Dec 23 2005 - New Year’s Resolutions From A Tradeshow Organizer

Here’s my list of resolutions for 2006 – please add yours in the comments or on your own blog and I will link back to them!
1) Reduce our exhibitor’s costs outside of booth space and sponsorships by 20% so that I can increase our booth space and sponsorships revenue by 20%
Every dollar spent on [...]

Dec 13 2005 - What’s Going On With the Los Angeles Convention Center?

I’ve read several articles (like this one, and this one) about how the Los Angeles Convention Center is not able to attract tradeshows because of the lack of nearby hotels.
Well I’ve completed their online “space availability form” twice now and left three messages over the past two weeks checking on space for 2007. So [...]

Dec 7 2005 - Compensating Speakers

Today’s post by Jeff Jarvis (which I found by way of Sue Pelletier’s blog) is very interesting.
(Side note: by the way, when you arrive at a blog post by way of a mention on another blog, is it proper blog etiquette to link to both blogs? What if I came to the post by [...]

Dec 7 2005 - “Podcast” is Word of the Year

The New Oxford American Dictionary has named “podcast” as the Word of the Year for 2005
Erin McKean, editor-in-chief of the New Oxford American Dictionary, said: “Podcast was considered for inclusion last year, but we found that not enough people were using it, or were even familiar with the concept. This year it’s a completely different [...]